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DVD Release: Club Dread

  • Release Date: 2004
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  • Includes audio commentaries by Broken Lizard comedy team members

DVD Release: Club Dread [Unrated]

  • Release Date: 2004
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  • Extended movie version not shown in theaters
  • Full-length audio commentaries by all five Broken Lizard Comedy Team members
  • 22 deleted/extended scenes with optional audio commentary by Jay Chandrasekhar and Erik Stolhanske
  • Original theatrical trailer
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  • Rating: StarStar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Parody/Spoof, Horror Comedy
  • Themes: Nightmare Vacations, Serial Killers, Stranded on an Island
  • Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Main Cast: Bill Paxton, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brittany Daniel, Jordan Ladd, Lindsay Price
  • Release Year: 2004
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Following up their breakthrough film, 2001's Super Troopers, the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, comprised of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske, took aim at the horror genre and delivered Club Dread. Starring the five members of the troupe along with Bill Paxton, the film is set at an anything-goes tropical resort for swingers. When a psychotic killer starts offing the guests with a razor sharp machete, it's up to the staff to hide the carnage, lest they lose the business of the unsuspecting surviving guests. As with Super Troopers and the first Broken Lizard film Puddle Cruiser, Chandrasekhar directs. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Review

Occupying a strange, near superfluous celluloid limbo somewhere between Club Paradise (1986) and Friday the 13th (1980), Broken Lizard's Club Dread does offer some moments of inspired insanity despite the filmmakers' failure to even out the script and pacing problems that plagued the group's breakthrough comedy Super Troopers. The laughs certainly flow more frequently here, but perhaps as a result, they seem so diluted that they lose the unhinged punchiness that made the best moments of Super Troopers so hilarious. Though it does sustain the loose, easygoing aesthetic of the aforementioned sleeper hit, the comedy troupe's third feature (counting their little-seen first outing Puddle Cruiser) also suffers by aiming at a target that's already been fired upon a few too many times; it certainly would have been more effective had it been released among such early '80s slasher parodies as Student Bodies (1981) and Pandemonium (1982). Delayed reaction arguments aside, Club Dread does -- when all is said and done -- mirror the stalk-and-slash efforts of yesteryear down to the most minute details, and the supernaturally-charged killer of Club Dread is on-target for the genre even if the film itself does come a few decades too late. It's obvious from many of the ideas here that Broken Lizard is truly a creative and inspired bunch (a few inventive kills even offer some unexpectedly tense moments); it just would have been nice to see them set their undeniably able sights on a cinematic trend that hadn't already been so well-tread. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast


M.C. Gainey - Hank; Michael Weaver - Roy; Nat Faxon - Manny; Samm Levine - Dirk; Dan Montgomery - Rolo; Elena Lyons - Stacy; Tanja Reichert - Kellie; Tony Amendola; Richard Perello - Cliff; Julio Bekhor - Carlos; Michael Yurchak - Burke; Greg Cipes - Trevor; Ryan Faulkner - Marcel; Veronica Segura - Zoe

Credit

Fernando Altschul - First Assistant Director; Melo Hinojosa - Set Decorator; Conrad Hool - Co-producer; Lance Hool - Second Unit Director; Lance Hool - Executive Producer; Leo Napolitano - Second Unit Director Of Photography; David Alvarez - Sound/Sound Designer; Jay Chandrasekhar - Director; Jay Chandrasekhar - Screenwriter; Kevin Heffernan - Screenwriter; Steve Lemme - Screenwriter; Ernie Orsatti - Second Unit Director; John Papsidera - Casting; Richard Perello - Producer; Paul Soter - Screenwriter; Erik Stolhanske - Screenwriter; Nathan Barr - Composer (Music Score); Christopher Covert - Musical Direction/Supervision; Theresa Wachter - Art Director; Lawrence Sher - Cinematographer; Ryan Folsey - Editor; Peter E. Lengyel - Executive Producer; Ben Conable - Production Designer; Melissa Bruning - Costume Designer; Robert Barocci - Second Unit Director Of Photography; Broken Lizard - Screenwriter

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Wikipedia: Club Dread
Broken Lizard's Club Dread
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar
Produced by Richard Perello
Written by Broken Lizard
Starring Bill Paxton
Kevin Heffernan
Brittany Daniel
Steve Lemme
Jordan Ladd
Jay Chandrasekhar
Paul Soter
Erik Stolhanske
Greg Cipes
M.C. Gainey
Music by Nathan Barr
Cinematography Lawrence Sher
Editing by Ryan Folsey
Distributed by Fox Searchlight
Release date(s) February 27 2004
Running time 103 min.
118 min. (unrated version)
Language English
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Club Dread (also known as Broken Lizard's Club Dread) is a 2004 comedy/horror film, written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers. It is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, one of the group members.

Plot

Club Dread follows a familiar plot that stems from the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. In the movie, Coconut Pete (played by Paxton) is a has-been rock star who runs a non-stop party on his private island, which may be a parody of Sammy Hagar's club/bar in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Cabo Wabo, but it's probably more of a Jimmy Buffett parody, as many of the selected songs in the movie are similar to those of Buffett; more evidence is the "Margaritaville scene." Dead bodies begin to turn up, and the staff try to solve the murder mystery without any of the guests learning of the murderer. The staff also have to try to avoid becoming the next victim, as the killer can only be one of them.

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Alternate Version

  • In 2005 an unrated edition was released to DVD. This version of the film contains an additional 15 minutes of footage for a 118-minute running time. It features several extended scenes, and also restores a subplot involving two cops (played by Paco Mauri and Tony Amendola) that was absent in the theatrical edition. Director Jay Chandrasekhar states in one of the disc's commentary tracks that the original R-rated version is still the director's cut.

Trivia

  • The story is set on an island in Costa Rica, but filming took place in Mexico.
  • A deleted sequence shows Pete, Dave and Juan going into the jungle to bury some of the dead bodies. Though this plot element was not integrated into either version of the film, outtakes of it were used in the gag reel over the closing credits. It is also available for viewing in the deleted scenes section on the unrated DVD.
  • Broken Lizard screened the film for Jimmy Buffett, who was so amused that he requested permission to sing some of the film's original songs on one of his live tours.
  • Steve Lemme's character Juan pronounces Penelope's name as Peen-Na-Lope because of an experience of Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan had while viewing Carlito's Way in a theater. Apparently during the screening, a man sitting behind the duo said "Peen-Na-Lope? What kind of a name is Peen-Na-Lope?" after actress Penelope Ann Miller's name came up during the credits. [1]
  • Coconut Pete's personal philosophy "Have a good time all the time, always eat the worm." is most likely a reference to the character Viv Savage in the film "This is Spinal Tap". When Viv Savage, played by David Kaff, is asked by Marty if he has a creed he lives by, Viv responds "Have... a good time... all the time."

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